@rohankatreddy1I picked up a cheap foam glider and thought to myself if it can be made to be remote controlled. So I took apart a toy drone I had laying around and repurposed its electronics for the glider. It flies well on a full battery, the video is when the battery is nearly dead so it doesn't have much power/control authority.
@patcybermindà0#arcade the plane is pretty much ready to now and the prototype telemetry computer works!
@KonstantinosFragkoulis0Today I can finally say that my function plotter is done (almost). I added support for all 3 and 2 variable equations! Still the performance is really bad and there are some small known bugs. I will continue working on them, but I'm not sure if I will be able to fix the performance issues... Also, I need to fix the way that you move around, as being level with the xz plane makes almost impossible seeing the plots of functions that lie on that plane.
Anyway, here is the live website: plotter.konstantinos.me
And here is the source code: github.com/konstantinosfragkoulis/FunctionPlotter
P.S. I also added my plotter on my portfolio. (konstantinos.me)
@ArnavPurbiya0Fixed a few things on my plane so it is ready for fligh
@Jack0#arcade Finished the first complete version of my Plane Project Management Slack integration bot. Currently, the main feature is notifying users when issues are completed. Plane doesn't have very good filtering for notifications, which is why I made this bot. I plan on adding more features, and hopefully this will be useful for people trying to do similar things. This was my first time using docker, managing API keys, and using AWS so let me know of any improvements I can make!
github.com/jayman-cooks/Better-slack-bot
@BrodyEnli0I finished my depth-of-field render! This is 100 samples -- much more than I've successfully done before (although it took 38 minutes...)
The focus plane was unfortunately outside of the range of the spheres, but it still looks interesting despite being blurry!@ArnavPurbiya0almost done wiering the rc plane
@tomgrigory0day 1 of making a rc plane
1. made a model for my rc airplane
2. decided to make a blimp first before building a rc plane
3. ordered the lipo battery and stuff i didn't hve
@sam0I’m visiting relatives and family this month. Honestly, not too interesting. I'll be continuing the update for my website as well as some other projects I'd like to finish or start!
@sike0here at the airport n decided to create a face tracking lol:
@ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA0my flight stick now hosts 2 functioning axis, a more compact size, and reinforced cams. onto implementing real springs
@ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA0design progress: fixed most of the issues, reinforced the spring mount, and made a wheel using my wheel assembly jig. I'm gonna try making a wheel with a bigger contact surface so that the plane so that the plane is more controllable, and I may add a reinforcement bar to the gear leg, as well as tighten it's tolerances on the spring mount.
@ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA0starting my streak again...
today I worked on new landing gear for my rc plane. my last one had issues with snapping and requiring the entire piece to be replaced. this design uses replaceable components, and also features suspension by way of mechanical pencil spring. I still need to design a new method of attaching the wheel, likely with a custom tension screw collar.
@alialiwa20050Inspired by Amazon Web Services (AWS) :aws:, Libre Web Services (LWS) :libre-web-services:, also known as "Raspberry Web Services (RWS)" :raspberry-pi-logo:, is a concept built during Hack Club's :hackclub: Winter of Making :wom: 2023 Winter Hardware Wonderland :winter-hardware-wonderland: "10 Days of Making" event is a hackable, scalable, load-balanced, home-hosted, multi-node aarch64 Arm-based :arm: cloud powered by Kubernetes :kubernetes: & Docker :docker:, created by @alialiwa2005 ("Hack Cat" :hacker-cat:), a veteran :scrappy-retro: Hack Club community member :dino-drake-yea: & founder 🧭 of Gaynor McCown Hack Club:gaynormccown:, established in November of 2020 :dinosaur_waving:.
Libre Web Services :libre-web-services: on Hack Club Scrapbook :scrappy: | Libre.hackclub.com
@ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA0prototype for my macropad, will finish cad and print tomorrow. will also try and work on my reciever to sim program so that I can use my rc plane radio with PhoenixRC to practice flying. if it's nice out, I'll clean the garage. I'll soon print components for the PC case, and then once I've finished printing components for me and @jeijii-U04GRS3T9J8's macropads I'll get back to printing mpcnc components.
@belle0Day 10 of #hardware-party :roo-yay:
Started working on the frame / physical map portion of the project!! I’m not done yet so I’ll be continuing on the project beyond the 10 days :)
@alialiwa20050Winter of Making Day 10
Yesterday, Minecraft was first deployed.
Today, networking has been configured to publicly expose the world, allowing you to join in!
I invite you to test LWS by playing Minecraft :minecraft: as a service hosted on Libre Web Services :libre-web-services:
Join the world today, version 1.19 PaperMC :paperplane:
Theoretically, in case the server goes down for any reason, it should spin up again promptly!
Hopefully that won't happen too often, though, as each instance of Minecraft leverages 2 ARM cores :arm: & 2 gigabytes of DDR4 Samsung RAM powering a high-performance optimized fork (please keep in mind that because we're running off microSD cards, there most likely be greater than typical lag/delays).
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Minecraft Server Address:
Libre.hackclub.com:25565
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:minecraft: on :libre-web-services: will remain public for at least the next 7 days, so feel free to attempt a speedrun, play with friends, and build cool things while it's public!
Feel free to post your creations on Minecraft on Libre Web Services on scrapbook, feel free to also tag me & attach the libre-web-services emoji to your :libre-web-services: posts!
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Additionally, I invite you to check out SkyScanner, another project in this year's Winter of Making Winter Hardware Wonderland event, which is a DIY aircraft radar station that recieves and records ADS-B signals from nearby flying aircraft in real-time!
In a collaboration, SkyScanner is now publicly exposed via a Libre Web Services tunnel (skyscanner.libre.hackclub.com), which will remain a publicly-accessible dashboard for the next 24 hours, so check it out while it's airborne!
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Libre Web Services on Hack Club Scrapbook | Libre.hackclub.com
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@MostafaSaleh0Winter of Making Day 10
Here is my project's local dashboard publicly tunneled via Libre Web Services:libre-web-services:
This tunnel will be online for the next 24 hours: skyscanner.libre.hackclub.com
@MostafaSaleh0Winter of Making Day 9
Finished setting up software
@ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA0day 6 of #hardware-party, spent some time drafting the wiring for my macropad, printed some hotswap sockets, and messed around with connecting my rc plane reciever to my pico (unrelated to my project I just got extremely sidetracked)
tomorrow I'll be cleaning out my garage to make space for the CNC machine, which I'll print the next few batches of components for over the weekdays as I still have to print quite a few things for the macropads. very likely won't finish the CNC by the end of the 10 day period, but hope to have made significant progress
as for the PC, I've got a significant amount of design work done, but I may redesign the bottom platform to be more secure. we may not get to build the PC itself until after the period as cleiftons availability got annihilated by his parents 😭
@belle0Day one of the Winter Hardware Wonderland :roo-yay:
For the next 10 days, i'm attempting to build an interactive sectional map with live weather data ☁️ (check out my proposal <https://github.com/hackclub/winter/blob/main/bellesea.md|here>)
This is my first full hardware project so i'm super excited!!! We're not off to a great start as I ran into some trouble connecting to my pi :( However, while we're figuring that out, I already started learning micropython and also read up on how to set up the IR sensors, which will serve as "hands off buttons" to toggle between different modes.
The core of the project is displaying weather data through different coloured LEDS. I have some WS2811 LEDS that will serve as the lights for each of the airport locations and show the local weather data w/ different colours so I planned out the specific airports i'll be adding lights to + the order in which it'll be linked. I'm working off a fork of github.com/prueker/METARMap.
Below is a much much fancier version of what i'm trying to make...
